If you haven't already, you've missed all the theme voting, except for the final round. If you're going to enter you had better go and vote. You haven't really missed out on much this time though, as no wars broke out (TeamPotato vs. TeamNotato, LDTD vs. LDTO).

For those who don't know, Ludum Dare is a competition where you have 48 hours (or 72 in the Jam) to make a game from a theme that is voted for prior to the competition. More info here.

If you haven't entered before and have the weekend free, you should consider entering. It's a great experience for learning how to finish a game, and work with time pressure.

How do you normally host/distribute?Ive never done this before. Normally when I want to send games to people I just use dropbox.Im also interested in setting up a blog/update page thing (never done that before either).

I'm really nervous, this is my first time and I just want to place decently in the rankings! I feel like if I managed to only get around 300th place or higher I would be devastated Anything lower than 200 is my goal for now until I start coding!

The two times I got placings (one time I wasn't able to rate games so I didn't get placed due to lack of ratings), I got around the 400-500s.

Although my problem is that I make the game too hard, and that probably drags down everything else because they don't enjoy the game as much.

This time I'll do better.

In any case, it's quite good, as there are over 1000, sometimes even more than 2000 participants.But in the end it comes down to how many people rate your game, and what kind of people they are. (There are some who game the system and just rate everything unfairly)

I want to try this, but it starts in 6 hours and I haven't slept for two days.

Son of a biscuit

Sleep now.

Couldn't had stuff to do.Guess I'll try this out anyway.

I love challenges, and even though I know I wont place anywhere near decent, I would like to see what people have to say/rate my stuff, considering I've only been messing with games for about two weeks now.

EDIT: I usually see people recording themselves doing EVERYTHING for the game, is this required?

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